The Steubenville Rape Saga Now Includes A Shooting Threat

A social-media firestorm has spent the last week enveloping
Steubenville, Ohio, and on Tuesday morning it took a frightening
turn: all district schools in the city went on a precautionary
lockdown from 8:30-10:00 a.m. after police received word of "some
type of shooting threat made on social media," reports
local WTOV9 TV report.

There were no reports of an actual gunmen, and the threat that
led to Steubenville's first major school lockdown was cleared as
"non-viable."

It also remains unclear whether the threat was a prank or a
fallout from the controversy
over the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl by two members of
Steubenville High's storied football team — the hacking group
Anonymous,
which spread awareness of the case with
a viral document leak last Wednesday, has denied its
involvement.

But the incident does echo an ongoing narrative of multiple and
now prominent Steubenville locals citing "threats" from
strangers who feel strongly about the case.

Meanwhile, Steubenville residents looking to blame someone or
anyone for harassment are beginning to center their focus on
Anonymous. The
hackers been called "terrorists," and it doesn't help that
Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla has publicly called the
group a threat to public safety.

Now it becomes my job when it comes to public safety. People are
concerned, very upset, concerned about their children, and in
fact Mothers have taken their children out of school, in fear of
what may happen. This has gone too far. Enough is enough.